SOPHOCLES IN SINGLE PLAYS FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND ENGLISH NOTES BY LEWIS CAMPBELL, M. A., LL.D. Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrews ADVERTISEMENT. THE present edition of Sophocles is intended for the use of boys in the upper forms of schools. It is founded upon the larger edition in course of publication by the Clarendon Press. The text is the same, with very few exceptions, but the notes have been changed and recast to suit the needs of younger readers, for whom the simple and compendious explanation of the meaning must mainly be kept in view. Discussions on the text and observations on metre have been omitted as unnecessary, though in some instances attention is drawn to probable corruption of the reading as a source of difficulty. In order to obtain the dogmatic certainty necessary in teaching boys, a decisive explanation has been given of some passages which the Editors are far from considering to be beyond question, and the most prominent construction has been singled out when the full interpretation would acknowledge more than one. In the Introductions, and occasionally in the Notes, attention has been drawn to the art of Sophocles, in the hope that an interest may be awakened in this subject. Such observations are also necessary to a complete understanding of the author, for the difficulties of Sophocles are not merely owing to the subtle delicacy of his language: it is often hard to breathe the fine air in which his genius lives, and appreciate in all its depth and nobleness a species of art at once so pathetic and intellectual. The plays will be published regularly at short intervals. Oct. 1. 1873. |